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An abandoned Tuscan village has been put on eBay for a cool €2.5m. Give as an auction description for the place you liveFrustrated at the lack of interest in the abandoned village it owns, deep in the Tuscan countryside, a religious order has put the whole thing up for sale...

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As much as cable companies don’t want to admit that their users are getting rid of traditional TV and using services like Netflix and Hulu to fill their watching needs, new research shows North Americans dropping cable at a fast clip. A new report titled “The Battle for the...

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Draw Something's users are steadily declining. (appdata.com) Less than a month ago we reported that Draw Something had ousted Angry Birds from the highly coveted top paid app spot, but it would appear that success was really Draw Something's plateau: just six weeks after Zynga acquired the New York-based app...

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Mobile analytics company Flurry has published some pretty interesting insights on the growing popularity of apps by category, revealing that ‘photo and video’ is the fastest growing in terms of time spent using them. Flurry tapped a sample of 8 million mobile users across all application categories, with its analytics...

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Facebook gave investors something to ponder ahead of its mid-May IPO, when it filed an amended S-1 to report lower quarterly revenue and net income for the first three months of 2012. Where has the money gone? Look under its hood, strip away its go-faster stripes and you see Facebook...

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Today HP released its fiscal first quarter earnings. It’s revenues for the period were $30.04 billion, down from $32.3 billion last quarter, its net income was $1.47 billion, and its earnings per share was $0.73. Analysts had anticipated 87 cents per share in profit. HP itself has forcasted that it will earn...

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Analyst have been sharply divided in providing estimates for Apple’s third quarter earnings report.And it would appear that this time, predictions of a mild third quarter were correct. Apple saw a bit of a plateau in MAc sales, with 4 million Macs, 26 million iPhones, and 17 million iPads sold...

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LinkedIn has crossed the 150 million user plateau and today reported a strong 4th quarter that beat Wall Street Estimates. In its earnings announcement today, LinkedIn reported revenue of $167.7 million, a 105 percent increase over the $81.7 million it earned in Q4 of 2010. It also reported 4th... Please...

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JCPenney CEO and former Apple retail chief Ron Johnson was interviewed today at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference. He talked a bit about the future of retail -- both online and offline. He said that if he had to choose between an online-only store or a brick-and-mortar retailer, "I take a physical...

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Facebook gave its first earnings report to Wall Street today, and the numbers were just OK. Here's how the company explains what happened. It's not easy being a public company. Every bump and divot in the road gets recorded in the price of your company's shares. Today, Facebook reported that...

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The implicit justification for various new copyright enforcement laws, such as the "three strikes" approach, is that they will encourage people to buy more authorized digital goods and thus support artists and their works. Naturally, those in favor of this logic like to produce figures that purport to show that...

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Yes, flash sale purveyor Gilt Groupe should sell stakes in its side businesses to outside investors. This is not just a crazy idea I just cooked up. The company regularly fields approaches from VCs and investors to this effect, and according to several people involved, Gilt is seriously entertaining them....

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Mobile-social networking startup Path has raised $40 million in series B funding, reports AllThingsD. The round, which will be lead by Redpoint Ventures, values the service at $250 million. In February, Path revealed it has passed 2 million registered users, more than half of which had joined since the service relaunched...

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As we approach the E3, the electronic gaming show in early June, I suspect that the value of “retina” high-resolution displays will soon become apparent. While the prospect of retina Macbooks is all but inevitable, we have reached a plateau when it comes to general computing and, more important, living...

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Which celebrated technology company is growing revenue at a higher rate than all the rest? Hint: it’s not Apple or Facebook, as you might expect. LinkedIn, the professional social networking company turned publicly traded powerhouse, is posting the highest revenue growth year-over-year. The newly public company is growing revenue...

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“The field of [big data] draws on findings from statistics, databases, and artificial intelligence to construct tools that let users gain insight from massive data sets.” - Michael Pazzani, Intelligent Systems Pazzani’s quote was originally published in February 1999 and did not reference big data; it referenced knowledge discovery and...

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Steve Jobs & Co. have come a long way. In Jobs’ own words at D8 last week: “[Apple] was 90 days from going bankrupt” when he took over [again]. Today, Apple is the most valuable technology company in the world. Everything has gone according to Jobs’ plan to this point,...

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Sorry for the attention grabbing title, but remember how we all celebrated when augmented reality passed virtual reality on Google trends, showing an exponential growth rate? (source) Well, it sure looked promising back last September, but since then, the interest in AR has stopped increasing, at least when measured is...